I noticed Danny Carroll (Basketball Class of 1975) wrote his name for the Christianity Today comment with his Guatemalan mother's surname last in the Latin American style. He was supporting immigration.

(08-15-2017 11:52 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(08-15-2017 09:17 PM)OldOwl Wrote:  Thanks for your comments. That is what I thought. I wonder if the Black and Latino enrollment has increased or decreadef over time. Maybe these stats are not available.

(08-15-2017 09:30 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(08-15-2017 12:09 AM)OldOwl Wrote:  I guess you are saying the large percentage of Asians enrolled and graduating from Rice is a recent trend but historically this is not the normal trend?

(08-14-2017 04:24 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  Try again....and keep digging. The living Rice alumni base is nowhere close to 30% asians.

I will treat your question as a serious one.

I was at Rice from 1963-1968. The only Asian students I remember were grad students.

Of course, most people older than me are dead, so i cannot speak to the percentages of "living Rice alumni".

As you can tell from my years at Rice, I entered under the will, graduated after the will was broken. So I was there when it was all white, left in the early years of diversification.

I never saw a black student, although the first ones were admitted while I was there. I did know a couple of Hispanic students,both in the class behind mine. I am of partial Hispanic descent myself, but nobody would take me for Hispanic from my name, accent, and appearance. I sometimes wonder if i slipped in without them knowing my heritage. Would I have been accepted if my surname came from my grandmother instead of my grandfather? Without revealing actual details of my personal life, think of the difference between something like "Wainwright"(grandfather) and something like "Rodriguez"(grandmother).

The classes were much smaller then - 425 in my freshman class, so if you are trying to figure the profile of "living alumni", take class size into account.